Product Description: Public Places - Urban Spaces is a holistic guide to the many complex and interacting dimensions of urban design.The discussion moves systematically through ideas, theories, research and the practice of urban design from an unrivalled range of sources...read more

A companion volume to "Urban Design: Street and Square", this book focuses on decorating the city - how ornament has been used in the urban scene. It shows how the pattern and distribution of street and square and other major elements in the city can be enhanced by the judicious use of decorative surface treatment and by the careful placing of hard and soft landscape features. Case studies of city decoration are outlined to bring together the ideas discussed and to show how ornament and decoration can be used to emphasize the five components of city form: the path; the node; the edge; the landmark and the district.

Product Description: This book discusses safety in the public space of city centres and, thus, in the public realm. It is also concerned with public order and disorder and with those crimes which affect people’s perceptions of safety in - and their use - of city centres...read more

Product Description: This book synthesizes urban design and urban regeneration by examining the revitalization of a number of historic urban quarters. Its focus is on quarters or areas where there is a significant number of historic buildings concentrated in a small area; with places and area-based approaches...read more